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Is roadkill healthier than meat?

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If people must eat animal carcasses, roadkill is a superior option to the neatly shrink-wrapped plastic packages of meat in the supermarket. Eating roadkill is healthier for the consumer than meat laden with antibiotics, hormones, and growth stimulants, as most meat is today.


Is it healthy to eat roadkill?

Roadkill is safe to eat in many instances but there are risks of rotting, rabies, and disease. You can avoid these risks by knowing what signs to look for and using common sense: Look for freshness. Obviously, if you have witnessed the animal being hit, it's fresh.

Why shouldnt you eat roadkill?

If a dead animal has been sprawled on a roadside in hot weather, it's possible that the meat is unsafe to eat unless it was recently killed (for example, if you hit it yourself and know how long it's been dead). ... When the weather is warm, roadkill flesh becomes a potential hotbed of microbes that could lead to illness.

Is a deer hit by a car still good to eat?

Normally, if a deer is hit by a car, several of the internal organs burst and the meat is quickly tainted. Rarely, a deer is hit in the head and the neck is broken. In those unusual circumstances, the meat is still edible and good, but like in the field, the deer must be quickly gutted, cooled, and hung up.

Do Vegans eat roadkill?

Buhler called roadkill “the perfect meat for vegetarians and vegans” in Modern Farmer, explaining that a road-killed animal “was not raised for meat, was not killed for meat, it is just simply and accidentally meat.” ... On the surface, not only is roadkill not vegan, it isn't even vegetarian or pescatarian.

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